Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-10-27
IOWA CONDENSED ITEIS

Davenport is trying to raise 500, 900 to
build railroad to Anamosa.
Davenport threatens to go into the base
ball business with $4,000 club
Steel rails are being put down on the
Illinois Central between LeMars and
Sioux City.
The Dubuque Herald, Oct. 90. relates
the following: A young lady, Miss Jennie
Bupburg, aged twenty-four, has been
living on homestead claim near Mitchell.
Dakota, for the five years necessary to
acquire title, and night before last took
the Illinois Central traiE at Sioux City to
go to her home in Barnville, Iowa county.
Wisconsin She had contracted the dread
disease, consumption. and was going
home to die among her relatives. After
she had taken the train, she rapidly be-
came worse. and the conductor telegraph
cd Rev. Father Thomas Linehan to meet
the train at Fort Dodge. He did so. and
finding that she was a Catholic, he took
the train east and remained by her side
until she died, which was just before the
train reached Webster City. The Rev.
Father heard her last confession and ad-
ministered to her the holy sacrament. and
the young soul made her peace with her
Maker. Every attention was given and
the body remained in the berth until the
train reached Galena, where it was trans
ferred to the Chicago & Northwestern
and taken home by her parents.
A shooting accident, which will prob
ably prove fatal, occurred in Gregorv's
blacksmith shop in Council Bluffs, Oct. %.
A revolver. supposed not to be loaded,
was being examined by two boys. While
the weapon was being handled Lee Amy,
| 81, came into the shop. Just as he enter
ed the revolver was accidently discharged,
the ball striking Amy in the abdomen, in
! ficting dangerous wound.
c. p. Ibes, of Sioux City, was robbed
of 1925 on the night of Oct. % by bur-
glar who entered his bedroom and took
his pocket book from under his pillow.
lbs was awakened and caught the fellow
by the shoulder but he tore away and fled
in the darkness
A Marengo special. Oct. 81, says: The
town is wild to-day over the an
nouncement Of new railroad for
Marengo. A party of Rock Island sur
yeyors have been overlooking the country
between here and Thornburg on the B. c.
ran. by way of Milersburg this county.
1t is well known that the Rock Island
has controlling interest in the b. G. r.
& n, and the objectivepoint by the sur
veyors being What Cheer, there is but
little doubt the Rock Island will build
the road at once, as coal feeder for the
main road here. 1t is short cut to these
coal fields and the proposed line marks a
way through the richest farming counties.
Should this branch be built, as is now
probable, the east Iowa, division round
house and shops will, in all probability,
be brought here.
A Manchester dispatch under date of
Oct. II says: This town was startled
! Sunday morning by the announcement
of the death of Thomas Toogood, pro-
prietor Of the Clarence house. He retired
| Saturday night not feeling very well.
Sunday morning he did not appear at the
usual time, and a messenger was sent to
his room. The door was locked, and no
answer being received, an entrance was
forced. Mr.. Toogood was found to be in
I...o 80 1N, ,nIi na1
help and died in very few minutes. 1t
| Is presumed that finding one dose Of NOR
phine which he was in the habit of tax
ing, failed to make him sleep. he arose
and took a second dose resulting in his
death. 1t was thought by some that he
had taken the morphine with the inten-
ton of committing suicide, but his friends
consider the evidence sufficient to warrant
the belief that his death was the result of
accident Deceased leaves quite large
family in fair circumstances. He settled
here over thirty years ago.
Des Moines has adopted new system
of disposing of the garbage and dead
animals that accumuates in the city. One
of the city papers of a recent date in
speaking Of it says: The cremating
furnace in this city was visited yesterday
by w. P. Tompson, Assistant Commits
sioner of Health, of Chicago; also by q
oumber of prominent gentlemen Of the
city, among the number DR.. Kennedy of
the State Board of Health, DR.. Fisher,
city physician, DR.. Turner, Dr.. Moore,
Robert Finkbine, Hon. James B. Weaver.
All were permitted to see several dead
horses, number of dead dogs. and
articles of every description, making in
all about nine thousand pounds. destroyed
by fire without the least possible offense.
The city of Toronto started committee
yesterday which will land here October
Goth to see the furnace work, with view
of adopting it in their city.
A Dubuque special. Oct 90, says: Mrs
Catherine Beck and her daughter, Mrs
Olinger, who resided on the corner oil
Seventeenth and White stree s, were as
saulted this morning while lying in their
bed by some party unknown. Both were
so severly injured that their lives are
despaired of. The first lntimation of the
bloody deed was the cry of murder
on the street, which aroused the neigh,
bors about o'clock. Some Of them
Fastening to the scene found the old lady
lying on the sidewalk in front of hel
residence She was taken into her house
where in one of the rooms hor daughter
was also found unconscious, with several
gaping wounds in her head. The side OF
her face was crushed in and several cuts
extended along her face. The assault was
evidently of murderous purpose as moth
ing was disturbed in the house. Suspicion
rests upon her son.in-law, Peter Marsh
who is dissolute fellow and does moi
enjoy the best of character. lie was
arrested, but on his charging the crime